Voters wait for hours in Elizabeth Warren's 'selfie' line. Is her strategy working?

Only a handful of people might have been jealous of 16-year-old Nathan Hall’s spot at the back of 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren’s “selfie line” in Seattle on Sunday: the roughly 10 people waiting in line behind him, watching the thousands of fans who had secured sports ahead of them. But Wall, born and raised in Seattle, bounced from his left foot to his right with the excitement of someone about to meet a potential next president. “I think it's worth the wait,” he said.

...From start to finish, the "selfie line" took four hours. A few days earlier at her second-largest event -- a 12,000-person rally in St. Paul, Minnesota -- the "selfie line," misnamed because Warren staffers take the photos, took two hours and 20 minutes. A few days before that, a line after Warren's town hall in Los Angeles took three hours.

...Asked whether increasing crowd sizes might force changes to the "selfie line" strategy, a spokesperson for the Warren campaign declined to comment. For now, the candidate is staying committed to the time-consuming process, which she's told her staff and reporters that she finds "energizing."

...Wall, who described most Democrats as “really, really afraid to question Israel,” said he asked Warren if she planned to be as tough on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu “in pressuring him to treat Palestinians like human beings” as she is day-to-day in her criticism of President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“Her exact words, she said: 'Oh, god, yes.’ So, I was glad to get that answer from her,” Wall said afterward. “And it really was just awesome getting to meet her.”

...As he waited, a campaign volunteer on a microphone announced Warren had just hit her 50,000th photo of the campaign. For Wall, that showed a level of transparency. “She's not afraid to get out there and defend what she believes," he said, "and I think her supporters feel like they have a voice.”

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